She is depicted at 14, so to become a 'mainstream female hero' TMP link she would have to be more generously endowed.And she would probably interest a wider audience with a tricorne than with a slouched hat?

But the character and her statue are really inspirational for a 28mm miniature figurine

Well, it took some 30 years from real 25mm to reach the "heroic" 32mm that fit in with 40mm, for roughly some 10% each decade. Keeping that pace our tabletop minis will reach some 170cm on average in around 355 years.

Gaming will certainly count as real sports then

Actually my first though seeing that "mini" was "that must be from Tom Meier" – before I realized that the photo is from a statue and that the master himself has posted here :-)

Interesting story but in need of a good edoting. She is left in charge of one old man and two soldiers, yet some settlers( one old man) and eight soldiers leave the fort. And there are more settlers inside the fort. Almost sounds like it was written by James Finemore Cooper.

Yes it probably is a good game there. I just would want to do a bit more reading about it. I am guessing that was written by a primarily french speaker. No bad, but someone with a better grasp of English would be better to brring it to a wider audience.

No, the picture is flipped! Her statue is right handed. She is ram rodding with her left in the color painting. If you flip it horizontally then the lock plate and hammer is correct and she is also right handed.

I only mentioned that for a 28mm 'generic armed female settler' miniature figurine the painted figure / statue (*not* the historical character) would preferably be *older* -and thus looking more 'developed'.

No Lolitas for me.

Am I the only one creeped out about folk misreading posts to discover 'sin' in them, as if obsessed by their own repressed deviances?

When I googled for images of Madeleine de Verchères all the reproductions of the painting that appears showed it reversed -probably the 1st to be posted on the web was reversed and then was simply copied?

Miniature figurines wise, one can hope Galloping Major will take inspiration for one of the planned F&IW 'armed female settlers'.

Off-topic, too bad painted statues came out of fashion (except in churches) in the early Renaissance when the wealthy began to collect unearthed pieces of ancient art: for decades the official bust of the French Republic would have be:

Am I the only one creeped out about folk misreading posts to discover 'sin' in them, as if obsessed by their own repressed deviances?

It bothers me too, but since I am American, I am used to the undercurrent of Bible Belt "morality" which we often see here. (See the thread recently started by "Dreadnought", in which he ill-advisedly posted relatively innocent images of his wife, which is up to 81 posts and counting. Most of the responses are mean, illogical, self-righteous, and hypocritical.)

I did not interpret your original post as being suggestive of anything improper. Instead, I assumed you were referring to the shape/age of the sculpt, with implications as to its utility in the typical game environment.